i. took he demands that the united states end its support for syrian kurds amid a spat between the two countries over washington's trained border forces. hundreds of prison guards at a large french prison that thoughts of be a hotbed for his radicalization strike over unsafe working conditions. and a new leak from the fancy bear's hacking group obtained by raises concerns over how don't think cases were handled during the rio olympics two thousand and six thing.

very good evening to you your watching our international. washington is downplaying its support for the kurds amid threats from turkey of a military attack on kurdish positions inside syria ankara's furious over what it sees as being broken u.s. promises to stop backing serious senior regional correspondent right because the. turkey isn't kidding around day after day it is pulling more tanks and more missiles more troops to the syrian border this is the premise to a new war a war within the u.s. led coalition should. now america's acknowledged it's established an army of terror along our country's border it's up to us to drown this army of terror before it is born. one of the reasons is america's new army

or border force which is what it was originally the u.s. led coalition told us in this letter that it was establishing a border security force an army of kurds that would patrol the border with turkey now that is preparing to invade the u.s. has done a one hundred eighty degree turn that entire situation has been missed but treat misdescribed some people misspoke we are not creating a border security force at all the story has changed it's not a new army or a border force it's thirty thousand troops that will be trained to prevent isis is return on paper for now and if turkey doesn't put a stop to it state department is now on overdrive you get the sense that they'll be bending over backwards for a valuable ally turkey is a very important value nato ally we have a lot of interactions with the turkish government as you probably know the foreign

minister of turkey is in vancouver right now i where i believe he will be meeting or have some sort of a chat with secretary taylor sent or at least some of our representatives later today so an important nato ally let's not kid around by all appearances america doesn't want to leave syria victory or no rex tillerson all but said so himself and that is the tragic twist to expend so many lives so much time and money to defeat isis we need to set the stage for another war a war within the anti isis coalition. or turkey expert heiko in your not a chant belief that there's growing discontent with american policies in turkey pushing closer to moscow. the u.s. administration right now is trying to lower the tensions but. you know in the fields what we're going to see is the continuation of the u.s. support for this entity is and the turkish administration would like to see the end

the end the clear end of the american support to the kurdish people idea why p.g. and to basically to redesign the american foreign policy in syria i can tell you that there is a very increasing enter an ism right now in turkey because of the american policies and this friction between the united states and turkey is basically pushing turkey towards more to russian arms. one of france's most notorious prisons acing two hundred guards go on strike over security concerns at the jail. following the strike almost one hundred twenty inmates refused to return to the

cells prisons reputed to be a hotbed of islamic extremism among the inmates there is. he was behind the deadly pirate attacks of november two thousand and fifteen thought the first strike to hit the french prison this week have been fearing for their safety across the country. today we have all come here for a strike because discontent is spreading across france a crucial problem is the security of prison personnel today for each god there are ninety inmates on top of that there's the issue of islamic radicals who are also kept in our jails and who are not isolated from other inmates. it's dangerous for us to be around the inmates because for them we are everything they hate for them we are enemies by definition. our work is very dangerous where weak teams of aggression and insult we experience violence

which is not taken into consideration by the government of the birth of their own like that it has become more and more difficult for us to act i've seen physical aggression towards my colleagues every day it happens every time we open the soul doors support. we denounce the working in dishes of our colleagues in the prison the security conditions the numerous acts of aggression against them all this if we want salaries to be increased for those who face such risks at work as well as an increase in personnel and better security. the french justice minister nicol met with a number of prison workers on tuesday she outlined a ten point plan to improve their working conditions among the point she highlighted more staff better equipment and a new director for the discussion on the issue has also been shared tools for march . across live now to annie marshawn former m i five opposite very good evening to you annie one hundred twenty in makes not returning to their cells today how big a security breach do you consider that. well it appears they didn't become violent

however the fact that they're not being they can't control the that level of prisoners in a prison is worrying of course you have a situation where obviously the prison staff are concerned about the safety of the ratio of reporters one prison then they're looking after one thousand prisoners is really an acceptable when it comes to safety and there have been a number of attacks as well in different prisons across france over the last few weeks showing that they are vulnerable you know tonight things and being beaten up and things so yes of course they're going to be concerned about this we've seen mirror situations across the u.k. with strikes as well over the last year where they cannot recruit enough prison officers and even if they can recruit them there's a very low level of retention so again the ratio is out of whack it doesn't work and it doesn't keep them safe in their work environment you know these gods have been striking because they say they're afraid they say that they're not working

conditions the believe will keep them safe will the british government listen. one would hope they would particularly as they have a you know an ever evolving terrorist threats there will be increasing numbers of radical islamists in prison but i think one of the issues they really need to address is this question of how they manage the prison population because we have seen time and time and time again if the last few years with these so-called lone wolf terrorist attacks across most of the western world that many of these people perhaps are not you know hardline jihadists who've been working and fighting in syria but actually they've been people who were petty criminals perhaps dabbling in drugs coming out of the deprived areas of our countries perhaps the bond here in paris as well and it's when they were serving time for those lower level crimes that they are indeed radicalized because they can indeed associate with islamic jihad is in prison and then they come out and then they commit these terrorist atrocities and this is probably most notable with some of the recent attacks in the

u.k. but also the lorry attack in. the south of france a couple of years ago so it's a well known trajectory for petty alienated criminals to be radicalized so perhaps they need to think a little bit more about how they manage the prison population when they're on the inside i mean a lot of factors that come into play here and expose will be one one of the biggest ones as well as security but when you've got the prison god saying in their opinion separate jails are needed for suspected jihad is you know how do you weigh the pros and cons the. well it's a difficult balance you know you've got to respect people's human rights as well because they are serving a debt to society and then once they're back out in the community so there's been a number of issues around this i mean certainly in the one nine hundred ninety s. when france was facing a very high level of terrorist threat particularly from algerian terrorists at that point those terrorists would be kept fairly isolated within the general prison community so they couldn't radicalize their fellow convicts even in the u.k.

after nine eleven decade ago in belmarsh the high security prison in london islamic extremists were kept isolated from the wider prison community as well they were deemed to be category triple a prison it's in order to stop radicalization now i think because of cost because austerity. the that has sort of weakened and that means that these extremists are out there in the general population and they can cause problems however there have been other historic cases particularly northern ireland where provisional. convicts were not treated as as they sort of political prisoners went on hunger strike and ended up dying we have situations in america where the conditions particularly in quantum obey but also other supermax prisons are so starkly busa of an appalling that really i don't think europe would want to go down that path either so it's trying to get a balance that protects the people the staff you work in that environment protects

the wider prison community from the possibility of radicalization but also respects the rights of the other prisoners the political risk is. always a pleasure to speak to you would be here in the thoughts of my guest and you marshawn former obvious of thank you. but it's the new league for the fun few birds hacking group has been obtained by our two units raised questions about how doping cases were handled during the rio olympics of two thousand and sixteen a little earlier on a colleague spoke to our diesel are trying to about those revelations. so new leaks about the summer olympic games twenty sixteen and remember during before and after rio the russian doping scandal was all over the news and that was when the and hire russian track and field team stayed home because of the band's well one i.o.c. e-mail exchange that we however can not confirm is real was about

therapeutic use exemptions or to you now correct me if i'm wrong but is that when athletes to use banned substances for medical purposes yes if you're an athlete and you're sick and this case you may get permission to use medicines from the list of prohibited substances in a sense that is illegal doping but that requires a certificate and judging by some of these unverified e-mails as many as forty four such certificates were given out right during the time of the olympics and most of them just days before the olympics were over that's where all the finals are happening but according to water rules the window between the time when the application is followed the next competition must be thirty days plus if we are to believe more of these on verified emails eight. from rio we're never

entered into the universe so anti-doping database that is interesting have we had of any consequences we don't know but i can tell you that among proved to be a real mess if it indeed happened during the rio games and we know that it is the most high profile sporting event ever the summer olympics and also another email that the fancy bears leaked was supposedly from a brazilian anti-doping professor about the crucial flaws and the doping test bottles again it's an. verified e-mail to the manufacturer of the bottles from the times right before the beginning of the rio olympics did it weird situation this happened the rio twenty sixteen berlinger bottles seem not all to be stand it did not fit the. force in them resulted in breakage of the cap and sometimes it can't be used to close the a boat will have to alec. photos you know just have

a record of this kind of non-conformity so nicky opening the bottles could cause damage according to dr ratner if the emails are real but this is the point when i want to go back to all the russian winter olympic athletes that were banned the head of the winter olympic games in korea besides the testimonies and besides all the things that the main. whistleblower grigori watching cove was saying the cornerstone element of the i.o.c. evidence or basically the only forensic evidence was the damage on the bottles or the scratches on the ones that were used in saatchi and the question i want to know whether both was at the center of suspicion insult che produced by that same company yes they were produced by burger that was providing the anti-doping officials with equipment for saatchi as well however neither the mcclaren team nor

the investigators they were appointed by the international olympic committee have ever shown us the visual results of their experiments and we were constantly told that the bottle technology is flawless but what if it isn't. now still to come this hour twitter is preparing a brand new tool to alert users about russian trolls find out more in just a moment. is must going to fit into steve jobs which is by coming up with innovative products you know the electronic gadgets market is a little bit different in the car business because the car business is you know you kind of bound by the highway system and you're bound by the whole infrastructure that is the automotive industry and the lobbying of the automotive industry so it's a bit difficult to be disruptive in that industry in a way he's going to open up his charging stations with one nine hundred fifty style

burger and shake joints with servers on roller skates ok that's that's an idea that might take off that might be a new like starbucks like third place that people go to to have an experience that might work. welcome back social media giants twitter facebook and youtube again being grilled over alleged russian interference in the u.s. presidential election i'm assuming that none of you have any doubt that the

russians meddled in our two thousand sixteen election and attacked our democracy any question. you know i'm now is only the latest us senate hearing the three social media giants are taking part in this time around twitter an ounce the also that it was preparing a tool it's to warn users about russian trolls dear has already sparked concern over just how trolls will actually be identified to explain all is are these done in hawkins. this time they've been grilled at a u.s. senate committee session about dealing with terrorist content and other dangerous materials a letter that i wrote calling these companies to individual inform all users who are exposed to false misleading and inflammatory post generated by russian agents we will be working to identify and inform individually the users who may have been

exposed to the ira accounts during the election now facebook already enables users to check if they've been exposed to russian bots and trolls from an apparent russian troll factory named the internet research engine see which so division and mistrust back in twenty sixteen fair enough if you buy the russian election meddling narrative but it doesn't stop there now it seems twitter is going down the same road we don't yet know the full details of how this will work but in a hidden recording of a journalist group project veritas allegedly discovered how exactly twitter picked out other apparent bots. it's good to read. they just look at what you. guys. look really.

good. for sure but we have requests that comment from twitter can they confirm that the top aimed at tackling and identifying these kremlin trolls is one hundred percent effective what are you supposed to do in the case of a mistake or the company has previously stated people in similar recordings didn't represent official views project veritas of course themselves have in the past been at the center of controversy as a result of their methods for tackling bots is all well and good but what about todd. opinions that are controversial unsavory or unfavorable nineteen eighty-four anyone. to think. that. so next time you're browsing social media and come across material let's may go

against the grain don't over think things the platform itself will give you a heads up what to believe or not. we spoke to adam gary he's an independent political commentator and he says that twitter could face legal action if it misidentifies accounts as bots or trolls. they're a big company and if they try to defame small individuals well the world class action lawsuit means something in the united states where most of this is going on so this is something the twitter needs to be very careful about this do they really want to expose themselves to these kinds of claims just to make their friends and congress happy about an election that's well over a year old at this point it's really ridiculous and if the lawsuits start to come in and if people's pockets start to be crunched then i think we'll see possibly a slightly more rational reaction how stupid do twitter really think us the members of the public or that we need to be warned about this as though it was something

that actually matters like credit card fraud or allegations of trading obscene images online this is just an exchange of opinions and by barking up the tree of trying to expose the source it's really just trying to talk down to people as if they're not intelligent enough to make an informed decision based on a variety of opinions that they come across online from a number of different sources in every country on earth just about. powerful winds have been battering the netherlands at least three people have died and several others injured and this video you can see shows some extent just how strong these gusts have been people with bike spray containers even blown over a weather alert was issued in the central part of the country with wind speeds reaching up to one hundred forty kilometers an hour hundreds of flights and train journeys have been canceled.

now after weeks and is a patient donald trump has announced the winners of his so-called fake news awards interest was extremely high so much so the website containing the results crashed in just the first few minutes. information that was false and fake and never happened get released to the public i'm against the people that make up stories i'm not going to give you a question you speak out you are shaky do. nothing gives you more credibility than donald trump calling you a liar and i of course don't want to get snubbed when i think our special effects team are made to look like the president or a paper towels or puerto rican oh wow. and

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think of what i know about the beautiful game great chance for. peace. welcome to the alex salmond show this week our focus is on international development and twenty fifteen the u.k. joined the hunt for countries who meet the longstanding u.n. target of contributing zero point seven percent of national income to overseas aid

how the stock is not without controversy and it's come under fierce attack we will be speaking to the politician who pushed the government to finally reaching that elusive tog the former international development secretary. i will also be hearing from tasmania who went to visit people on the front line of international development. let's see some of your tweets your messages i'm going to emails. thank you for your tweets and messages let's just take a look at a few a poll by the way says i would love to see a highly regarded oil and gas economics expert on the show highlighting just how much scotland has and is losing out on with oil and gas reserves to westminster well paul with brant crude touching seventy dollars this week and a huge investment decision announced might be a very timely moment to have a look at the oil and gas industry and then there was a great number of messages about brian cox the actor who was interviewed on last week's show shall be gene seaton says i enjoyed your interviewer brian cox he

reminded me of my old father when he was asked what he thought of don dorian's after a long pause he said bolshie but they are well surely i think bolshie but failure is a great description and god says i don't want to give too much away but to my favorite things that malick some i'm sure today brian cox and midget gems is the scottish delicacy that brian cox was warning us all about and there's the clearly says excellent if you have actor brian cox love that you get proper time for in-depth discussion and not soundbites how about a rubber button special in the next episode and in the summer vein jeff crilley says why the scotland fail to promote bombs week well jeff those are going to celebrate is going to be going on both from scott on them internationally the robins federation of course is based in scotland and check out the scottish government up that we've produced a few years ago as the full body of work in it and the wind from bradford of

scotland and far beyond people be making their own celebrations of scotland's national poet and when next we will learn our exam and sure we'll make our own contribution to celebrating them off to memory of robert burns. under mature was the international development for the first two years of the coalition government that's the one elected and twenty term in that period has set the administration's course and finally achieving a united nations target on international development that was the one for set back in one hundred seventy today he states the case for maintaining that level of contribution let's hear from under. the conservative coalition government elected in twenty turn was the first government to implement britain's promise to the poorest people in the world that we would spend no point seven percent of our budget of our g.n.p. on international development and i believe this is some of the best public

expenditure britain makes and i'm very proud to have been a member of a government which stood by its promise to the poorest people in the world and in spite of a time of great austerity in britain refused to balance the books on the backs of the poorest in the world or indeed in britain now this budget it contributes to the safety and stability and the prosperity of some of the poorest countries in the world it stopped conflict from starting once it stopped it it then seeks to reconcile people caught up in conflict and it also focuses absolutely on building prosperity by trying to make sure that economic activity increases because the way the poorest people lift themselves out of poverty is by being economically active so it has a real impact on the ground in the poorest parts of the world but it's also in our national interest every penny of this budget helps britain's national interest by making the world a safer and more prosperous place that increases our.